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“IT’S GOING TO BE A FINAL THREE. PLUS ONE,” says editor Jack, giving me the kind of side eye usually reserved for someone reaching for a bottle during a bar fight.
“So… four?”
“No. It’s a final three, but we’ve decided that the 5 N needs recognition, a highly commended sort of thing.”
“I haven’t voted yet.”
“No. Because you’d pick the wrong things.”
So goes what stands for democracy in the household, a verdict delivered just as I spill 98 RON sustainable petrol all over my boots and down the side of a gloriously filthy Porsche GT3 RS. Turns out a jury-rigged electric fuel pump doesn’t have an automatic cutoff, and the fuel gauge has a bit of real time lag. But it’s not so much of a problem: waterproof safety zones are all in place, petrol evaporates, skin grows back, and the serious road testers at generally make good choices. What helps is that although a decent lawyer could make a case for a few of the cars here, the standouts are more three-dimensional than you’d think. The ones
